Glastonbury Price Increase

[goodgoalie]

Next year's Glasto will cost an eye-watering £335 - that's an increase of £70, or over 25%. Who can afford that sort of price in these hard times?

[goodgoalie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-63298334

[Ken4155]

When you consider that the holder of a ticket is entitled to 5 nights camping and is able to choose from over 3,000 performances on 100 different stages, GG, it's quite cheap.

https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/tickets/

[naomi24]

Actually considering the prices of theatre tickets and the number of performers at Glastonbury that's not expensive. Yes, I could afford it - but there's no way I'd pay even £10 to sleep in a tent in a field and have to share manky portaloos or whatever they're called with thousands of other people. I can think of little worse!

[Ken4155]

Sharing portaloos with complete strangers wouldn't be that different to being on NATO exercises with other nation's troops, using portaloos (a rarity), communal toilets (!!!) or digging holes in which to deposit bodily waste.
I really would love to have experienced Glasto at least once - in my younger days, of course :-)

[ToraToraTora]

They'd have to pay me about 10 times that to go anywhere near that cess pit.

[Redhelen72]

Not my idea of fun, but I think it is value for money considering the activities available.

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rich people

[naomi24]

Rich? Nonsense.

[Maydup]

I’m pleased I went back in the days when you could get in for nothing across the fields and through the gaps in the hedges.

[gingejbee]

I can afford it, too...but wouldn't go even if they paid me that amount.

[carrot99]

Last year my cousin's friend went as an after festival cleaner. She had to buy her ticket and then when it was over she was committed to work for four (3?) days clearing the site and then she had her ticket money refunded.

[FatticusInch]

Not even a free ticket would persuade me to visit what would be Hell on earth, plus I’d never cope with the dilemma of choosing which acts to see when the bigger names clash, I’ve never understood the concept of that.

[youngmafbog]

Not that I would go but it seems pretty reasonable to me.

//Who can afford that sort of price in these hard times?
//
Bet it sells out fast.

[Ken4155]

^
Not taking that bet :-)

[naomi24]

Ken 13.28, army boots are not my thing either. ;o)

[Ken4155]

^
Good tread on them, Naomi, stops one from slipping and sliding in the mud and whatever else may be down there.

[naomi24]

Haaaaa! Doooon’t!!!

[fender62]

used to go back in the early 80's now it's to commercial and i dont like a lot of the music on offer, i remember there was a stream in the middle of it sort of, and people would use that as a loo, nasty.
i saw a guy fall in it once, he tried to grab me before falling in as he lost balance as he was erm high as a kite.

[pastafreak]

youngmafbog...in 2019 the tickets for 2020 sold out in 33 minutes. Previously it was a matter of hours.

[ichkeria]

With about 40 stages there ought to be something to tickle your musical fancy at any given time.
Actually Glastonbury has got a lot more civilised over the years. Not everyone approves but it must be a good thing. We had stuff nicked from our tent once: bad.
But the good news was the police arrived promptly, marched the thieves off the site in the clothes they stood in, and invited us to help ourselves to the contents of their tents!
What puts me off going now is there are simply thousands more people there.